Engrossing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ENGROSSING in dictionary:

VERB:
• absorb all the attention or interest of
• gain or keep exclusive possession of
• produce (a legal document, especially a deed or statute) in its final form
ADJECTIVE:
• very interesting
• capable of arousing and holding the attention
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to occupy completely

Words related to ENGROSSING

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How to use ENGROSSING in a sentence

• I repeat, Lester, that this fellow is a great criminal, and that he finds life infinitely more engrossing than either you or I.
• Lovingly the dark eyes watched the engrossing process.
• Indeed, so engrossing did the intercourse become, that it seems even to have interfered with the outburst of radical zeal in the new political convert.
• The engrossing topic of the session will be the removal of the Indians.
• The dramatic school work was all she had hoped and more, stimulating, engrossing, altogether delightful.
• Art and literature being now more engrossing than my plans for reform, I became, in truth, an unwilling occupant of a room and a ward devoid of even a suggestion of the aesthetic.
• Slavery and emancipation were the engrossing topics during the evening.
• But presently she paused, arrested by an idea so engrossing and yet so terrible that her heart seemed to pause in her breast.
• Herein lies its peculiar and engrossing fascination.
• For both mind and heart the future held in store for him the most engrossing emotions, but it did not therefore bring him happiness.
• It has the merit of being amusing, pleasantly written, and engrossing.
• It became an engrossing topic with him, as if there were phases that puzzled him, upon which he desired light.
• Football was very engrossing, yet he managed to get out for at least one visit a week.
• The sweep of a country with free rein and a sharp sword, and always the hazard of loot or death was an engrossing subject.
• And yet in the case of each of these rigorous and faithful students there were other, and, for long periods, more engrossing occupations.
• So engrossing, indeed, were these sensations, that they quite overpowered his previous ones, and, in his present vexation, he for the moment forgot his fears.
• Though it failed to win an equal success, it was a hardly less brilliant performance, and forms another engrossing page in Mr.
• On the few keys that still sounded he continued to fantasy until his insanity grew so engrossing, that it was necessary to remove him to an asylum.
• It had, for so many weeks, been so much a part of my daily life that I would have missed it had it not been for this new and engrossing interest.
• The Chief Justice talked to him whom he had just met for the first time during the whole ride of half an hour on the same engrossing subject, as he had to me before.
• His duties were most engrossing, for not only were the proofs of all the local newspapers submitted to him, but also all other printed matter.
• Her mind was bent on pursuits of a far loftier and more engrossing nature.
• But to one man the thing never became less strange, less engrossing, or less horrible.
• The infirmities of Colonel Evellin engrossing the whole time of Isabel, no fund could be raised from her industry, and with prompt though perhaps imprudent loyalty Dr.
• I kept right on looking steadily meadow-ward, as if green fields and winding streams were much more engrossing to me than the presence of a mere stranger.
• Had I lost then the joy and the comfort of the nestling house and curling smoke? There were still interesting contracts of course, engrossing work.
• Very few men who had risen to the heights reached by Washington would have found time, in the midst of engrossing cares, to write such letters as he wrote to friends and kinsmen.
• Yet between father and daughter in the security of an inner chamber there not unnaturally arise topics of more engrossing interest.
• In parts of England, the practice of engrossing and enclosing holdings was increasing, as sheep-raising became more profitable than farming.
• But poor Harriet was such an engrossing charge! There was little sympathy to be spared for any body else.
• We now began to make nature collections, in which he took the keenest interest, many holidays and excursions being arranged to further these engrossing pursuits.
• Do you think you would like her if you knew her? 11th January I meant to write to you from the city, Daddy, but New York is an engrossing place.
• The mighty Pendle rose up before them, huge and dark, engrossing half the hemisphere.
• Some of these topics are still engrossing the attention of teachers at their annual meetings for the discussion of live educational questions.
• An engrossing story of English social and political life.
• But the wounded angel, like the metal machine, is only a device whereby the searching examination of our author may be displayed in an engrossing and intimate form.

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